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Consensus on "Combination Therapy" for Breast Cancer

...r options to treat the cancer including radiation, chemotherapy and hormonal therapy. Now at a three-day conferenc...se the experts recommend surgery along with either chemotherapy or hormonal therapy. To help in the decision-making, experts came up with their own recommendati...

Acupuncture May Help Chemotherapy Side Effects

...ease the distressing and disabling side effects of chemotherapy for breast cancer patients, if researchers at National Institute of Health (NIH) are to be believed. According to Dr. Joannieshen MD, MPH, research associate at NIH, electro-acupuncture was more effective in controlling vomiting than just medicatio...

New drug helps boost cancer treatment

...n on cancer cells and gives new potency to failing chemotherapy drugs thereby extending survival of advanced colorectal cancer patients. IMC-C225, the new drug which is actually a monoclonal antibody, is designed to interfere with the epidermal growth factor receptor, a molecular structure that, when blocked, ma...

Antidepressants come in handy for patients on treatment for hepatitis, cancers and multiple sclerosis

...t can avoid this problem. Almost 50% of people on chemotherapy with high dose interferon for skin cancer (malignant melanoma), developed severe depression. But when they were given antidepressant Paxil for two weeks before chemotherapy, only 11% developed depression. Dr. Andrew H. Miller, MD of the department ...

ZD1839 Proves Effective - A Breakthrough in fighting Lung Cancer

...C) as monotherapy and in combination with standard chemotherapy agents after segmental scrutinization in two different studies. Vincent Miller, MD, of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and the principal investigator of the first study said, "It is hoped that our study will be a prelude to better...

Double impact vaccine

... is the standard treatment for lymphoma. High dose chemotherapy with bone marrow transplantation is given in case of relapse. If proved effective, the treatment derived from measles vaccine virus would become another treatment option for patients with relapsed lymphoma....

Acupuncture can ease cancer

...xperienced by cancer patients undergoing high-dose chemotherapy could be eased by electroacupuncture. Nausea and vomiting caused by the powerful drugs used to fight cancer can prove extremely debilitating for patients. Doctors offer an arsenal of various anti-emetic drugs to lessen the reaction, but in recent y...

Anti-Cancer Drug Restores Normal Cell Growth

... were comparable to those seen with other types of chemotherapy and included fatigue, nausea and vomiting, lowered platelet count and abnormal heart rhythm, the researchers add. "These results suggest that is a novel and potentially effective therapy for patients with T-cell lymphoma," Fojo's team concludes....

Cyclosporin A Treats Leukemia Complications

...g translates into an improved tolerance of further chemotherapy treatments....

Low-radiation treatment for brain tumours

...will be treated with lower radiation and increased chemotherapy doses than those currently used. // In the US, about 500 children are diagnosed with this curable condition each year. In the early 1990s, the standard treatment was to apply a dose of 3,600 cGy or rads (units of radiation) to the whole brain and s...

New drug may stop alopecia

... effects of the treatment. Hair falls out because chemotherapy drugs aim to kill rapidly dividing cancer cells but also hit the cells surrounding hair follicles that divide quickly. The gel works by inhibiting the action of an enzyme involved in cell division. By applying GW8510 directly to the scalp, the drug d...

Appropriate treatment for breast cancer

...ell years after treatment, although those who have chemotherapy and tamoxifen may have reduced physical functionin... only drawback is that women who received adjuvant chemotherapy after surgery, or tamoxifen, reported sexual discomfort and vaginal dryness. It calls into question ...

Combination therapy to treat breast cancer

...al cell-killing drugs. Alternatively, conventional chemotherapy may be used for short courses at times when the disease is more aggressive and targeted therapy used at other times....

Focused Treatment For Childhood Cancer

...de effects of prolonged and powerful radiation and chemotherapy at an early age. The latest research is a collabo... But the therapies aren't perfect. Radiation and chemotherapy for up to a year at such a young age can lead to hearing loss, cataracts and severe learning disabil...

Drug stabilizes cancer growth

...s with a variety of cancers that failed// standard chemotherapy drugs in a study done by the Ohio-based Cleveland Clinic. Phenoxodiol belongs to a relatively new class of drugs known as signal transduction inhibitors, all designed to switch off certain cancer processes. Phenoxodiol was discovered by Novogen Ltd...

Chemotherapy Pill Has Fewer Side Effects Than IV

A chemotherapy pill is as effective for treating advanced colorec...ine is the oral form of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), the chemotherapy regimen most commonly used to treat advanced colorectal cancer. Capecitabine is both convenient to ...

Enzyme stimulates growth of adult stem cells

...enzyme. When the researchers treated the mice with chemotherapy that severely damaged bone marrow, 72% died, while all of the mice that still produced MMP9 survived because they successfully regenerated blood and immune system cells. He said that without MMP9, none of the stem cells woke up,and stay sleeping, hib...

Gel assists head and neck cancer

...ated with more than one therapy including surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Some patients received a new treatment that combines cisplatin and epinephrine in a gel, which is injected directly into the tumor. Other patients received injections of a placebo gel. Tumors were injected up to six times per week o...

Rectal Cancer treated with radiation

...plant delivered a completion dose to the tumor. No chemotherapy was given to any of the patients. Researchers found the five-year overall survival rate was 60 percent and, for patients under age 75, it was nearly 70 percent. Rectal function was maintained in 90 percent of the patients and no severe toxicity was ...

Useful drug for stem cell transplant problem

...tions from cancer therapy. Generally high doses of chemotherapy are given before a stem cell transplant// such as ...arrow transplant is used for cancer treatment. But chemotherapy causes five to 50 per cent of such patients to experience a potentially fatal complication called ve...

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